Spatial Data Discovery Management and Delivery of Municipal and Environmental Data - May 11, 2007
	Registration To register, phone 604-694-2259, or email Seating is limited.

Location:
The seminar will be held, Friday May 11 from 1:00 – 2:00pm at McElhanney’s office, 100-780 Beatty St, Vancouver. Cookies and refreshments will be served.

About this seminar
Losing a key person in your company or department can be devastating as all the specialized knowledge that they acquired, may leave with them. This is also the case for the loss of geospatial data. A system to store, search for, and deliver geospatial data in a timely and efficient manner is a necessity in today's economy. Geospatial data management has rapidly evolved from specialized databases and document management systems to tools that support diverse spatial objects such as transportation grids, 3D building models, aerial imagery, soil/water/air samples, cadastral plans and more at local and mobile sites. More recently this has grown to include live web mapping services, LiDAR, and large scale image and gridded data.

Encom Compass Enterprise is a GIS neutral application that enables users to catalogue a vast range of spatial data. Whether your data is from ArcGIS /ArcSDE, MapInfo /SpatialWare, AutoCAD, or Microstation format, we will show you how all these disparate datasets can be viewed and accessed through one data management tool. Compass Enterprise is ISO 19115 / FGDC compliant ensuring your company or department meets the standards that are now part of normal business practices.

This presentation will address the following ongoing challenges for the resource industry and specifically answer how we can:

• affordably manage constant change in industry standards.
• manage files, documents and spatial databases in a coherent framework.
• find existing data quickly.
• make spatial data discovery simple, yet support diverse data sources.
• make local and remote data delivery efficient.

Mr Robert Healy, Director, Compass Systems Manager
McElhanney is pleased to have Mr. Rob Healy from ENCOM to present the capabilities of Compass Enterprise.  Rob has over 25 years of geospatial industry experience specializing in mapping and GIS products and services. Rob co-founded Meridian GIS in 1997 and helped grow it into one of Australia's leading GIS consultancies and managed its merger with Encom. He guided Meridian in the development of the Compass Enterprise data management solution, training and more.

	To purchase this product, or for more information, please contact:
	Karl Kliparchuk kkliparchuk@mcelhanney.com Tel: 604 683 8521 Fax: 604 683 4350	Andrew McIntosh amcintosh@mcelhanney.com Tel: 604 683 8521 Fax: 604 683 4350